Click Here to Read: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) Art, beauty, and terror in perfect rhythm by Robert Goodman on the Spoken Word Poetry Substack on January 28, 2026.
Edgar Allan Poe. Image: W.S. Hartshorn (1848 daguerreotype). C.T. Tatman (1904 photo of a c. 1848-1860 photo of daguerreotype missing since 1860). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Weathering Paradoxes and Conflict Through Poetic Healing and Mutual Sharing: A courageous way to understand, advocate, connect and soothe yourself during times of crisis by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens Substack on January 22, 2026.
Healing a Horse Suffering from Colic with Old Wine and Olive Oil. Tayyarzade Ata Bey (1801–1877) : Image: Acquired by Henry Walters Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: Life at Its Most Free: Tegan Bennett Daylight on not writing Ruth Park’s biography on the Sydney Review of Books website on November 7, 2025,
Ruth Park, New Zealand-born Australian author, ca. 1942, from vintage gelatin silver print, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
